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9780252066450

Two-Spirit People

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  • ISBN13:

    9780252066450

  • ISBN10:

    0252066456

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1997-09-01
  • Publisher: Univ of Illinois Pr
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments xi
Introduction 1(20)
Sue-Ellen Jacobs
Wesley Thomas
Sabine Lang
Part 1: Rebuilding Anthropological Narratives Concerning Two-Spirit People
Is the ``North American Berdache'' Merely a Phantom in the Imagination of Western Social Scientists?
21(24)
Sue-Ellen Jacobs
The Northern Athapaskan ``Berdache'' Reconsidered: On Reading More Than There Is in the Ethnographic Record
45(24)
Jean-Guy A. Goulet
Cross-Dressing and Shamanism among Selected Western North American Tribes
69(31)
Arnold R. Pilling
Various Kinds of Two-Spirit People: Gender Variance and Homosexuality in Native American Communities
100(19)
Sabine Lang
Traditions of Gender Diversity and Sexualities: A Female-to-Male Transgendered Perspective
119(26)
Jason Cromwell
Part 2: Questions of Terminology
Changing Native American Roles in an Urban Context and Changing Native American Sex Roles in an Urban Context
145(11)
Beatrice Medicine
Navajo Cultural Constructions of Gender and Sexuality
156(18)
Wesley Thomas
A Navajo Worldview and Nadleehi: Implications for Western Categories
174(18)
Carolyn Epple
M. Dragonfly: Two-Spirit and the Tafoya Principle of Uncertainty
192(11)
Terry Tafoya
Part 3: Two-Spirit as a Lived Experience: Life Stories
I Am a Lakota Womyn
203(7)
Beverly Little Thunder (Standing Rock Lakota)
Traditional Influences on a Contemporary Gay-Identified Sisseton Dakota
210(7)
Michael Red Earth
A Postcolonial Colonial Perspective on Western [Mis] Conceptions of the Cosmos and the Restoration of Indigenous Taxonomies
217(11)
Anguksuar
Navajo Warrior Women: An Ancient Tradition in a Modern World
Carrie House (Navajo/Oneida)
223(5)
I Ask You to Listen to Who I Am
228(8)
Doyle V. Robertson
A ``Berdache'' by Any Other Name ... Is a Brother, Friend, Lover, Spouse: Reflections on a Mescalero Apache Singer of Ceremonies
236(19)
Claire R. Farrer
Part 4: Comments, Reflections, and Generalizations
Gender Statuses, Gender Features, and Gender/Sex Categories: New Perspectives on an Old Paradigm
255(10)
Lee M. Kochems
Sue-Ellen Jacobs
On the Incommensurality of Gender Categories
265(7)
Alice B. Kehoe
You Anthropologists Make Sure You Get Your Words Right
272(4)
Clyde M. Hall
The Dilemmas of Desire: From ``Berdache'' to Two-Spirit
276(8)
Gilbert Herdt
Native American Genders and Sexualities: Beyond Anthropological Models and Misrepresentations
284(13)
Evelyn Blackwood
Part 5: Dealing with Homophobia
Dealing with Homophobia in Everyday Life Introduction
297(22)
Claire R. Farrer
Contributors 319(4)
Index 323

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